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by andrewl 11mo ago
A similar thing happens with children of parents who came out of war zones or famines. Sometimes the children are explicitly taught that violence or starvation can come at any moment. Often they learn to feel under threat implicitly by pi
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The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia(cnn.com)
735 points by andrewl 11mo ago|938 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
Many air traffic control systems are also running on old hardware and software, which can include floppy disks. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5424682/air-traffic-con...
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Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China(slashdot.org)
13 points by andrewl 1y ago|13 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
The article did not say carriers were demonstrably not survivable in warfare. Or it said that that was not the conclusion of the navy. The lesson wasn’t that aircraft carriers are obsolete; it was that air-independent propulsion and patient
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We Are Different from All Other Humans in History(forkingpaths.co)
3 points by andrewl 1y ago|3 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
See Peto's Paradox for discussion of different cancer rates among species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto's_paradox
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by andrewl 1y ago
The rat experiment is usually referred to as Rat Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park There are criticisms of it, some of which are in the criticisms section of the Wikipedia article, and look to be valid. I
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by andrewl 1y ago
Even if they pay no other taxes, they do pay sales tax on their purchases at stores, gas stations, and so on. And those taxes go to the state or local government, and help pay for school and other services.
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by andrewl 1y ago
That sounds like the kind of air purifier I want. What brand/model is it?
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Tumult and Sympathy – The Letters of Oliver Sacks(commonwealmagazine.org)
21 points by andrewl 1y ago|3 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
I am going to try it. One nice thing about JetBrains IDEs is that they have all the functionality of the DataGrip database IDE built in. This will be an issue for some users. Further down the page is a section on data collection: Does my I
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by andrewl 1y ago
And if I were making prodigious amounts of money I'd be happy to go back and pay JetBrains the $274.8 a year that RubyMine costs per person for a company license. Aside being the decent thing to do, I'd like to contribute to JetBr
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by andrewl 1y ago
The Russians can work to swing an election with having to collude with the Trump campaign. They can just to their propaganda without saying anything to anybody.
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by andrewl 1y ago
Money is a factor, but not the only factor. Trump also had a gigantic Russian propaganda campaign on his side. And the Russians are good at that kind of operation. So Trump also had Russian money on his side, just not in the form of cas
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by andrewl 1y ago
I like these two: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
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by andrewl 1y ago
Some would say Harvard and Yale are the Oxford and Cambridge of the US. But we’re a big country, and we have a lot of schools. Many lists of top schools include these, alphabetically ordered: Columbia University, Cornell University, Harva
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by andrewl 1y ago
I've read a few articles about him, but I never heard him speak. I just pulled this up, and I find it fascinating: https://taproot.com/rickover-60-minutes-interview/
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by andrewl 1y ago
I'm two pages in, and it is excellent.
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AI Founder Became a Billionaire by Building ChatGPT for Doctors(forbes.com)
1 points by andrewl 1y ago|0 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
For a lot of these people the term Communist is basically a synonym for sick or evil. I have seen very extreme people using Communist and homosexual interchangeably as terms for what they consider immorality. "They're homosexual,
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by andrewl 1y ago
Interesting. I never noticed my submission titles being modified. I only ever hit the length requirement. And once I post something I only look at the comments, and not the title. I should go back and see what's been done to my submiss
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by andrewl 1y ago
You make it sound as if the HN system itself arbitrarily shortens titles, which it does not. It just enforces a limit on how long titles can be. It is the user who must make the edits to fit the title into the limited space. And it was no
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Scientists Warn US Will Lose a Generation of Talent Because of Trump Cuts(theguardian.com)
25 points by andrewl 1y ago|6 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
laurent_du: What if they are going to kill your child? I have zero respect for this kind of conviction. specproc: I have to say I'm fortunate enough never to have found myself in that situation. Is this something that happens regularl
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by andrewl 1y ago
Here's a short (2:46) video called Warren Buffett: No one would owe 'a dime' of federal taxes if other companies paid fair share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzTsTU1xL8
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by andrewl 1y ago
It absolutely was. He likes playing the pompous buffoon. He will also ask you to call him Dr O'Brien or Admiral O'Brien.
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Mysterious Database of 184M Records Exposes Login Credentials(wired.com)
4 points by andrewl 1y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 1y ago
I like Mermaid fine, but nothing is perfect. I will look at your list. The tool I always wanted would let me paste in the SQL of my database schema and output a diagram of the tables and relationships. That's SQL and not Markdown o
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by andrewl 1y ago
That site is really hard to read. I was about to say it needed a designer, but it obviously had one. But the designer is either very bad or intentionally made the design very bad. I can't tell. I also can't tell if the author is

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